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52 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15536
How Do Humans Respond to Huge Financial Losses?
Redzo Mujcic, Nattavudh Powdthavee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15018
Skewness Expectations and Portfolio Choice
Tilman Drerup, Matthias Wibral, Christian Zimpelmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14323
New Moneys under the New Normal? Bitcoin and Gold Interdependence during COVID Times
Pablo Agnese, Jonathan Thoss
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14301
Financial Advice and Household Financial Portfolios
Sarah Brown, Alessandro Bucciol, Alberto Montagnoli, Karl Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14069
Gender Match and the Gender Gap in Venture Capital Financing: Evidence from Shark Tank
Michael Jetter, Kieran Stockley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13766
Does the Wealth Tax Kill Jobs?
Marie Bjørneby, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13054
Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis
Michael Jetter, Leandro Magnusson, Sebastian Roth
published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 128, 103512
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12986
The Impact of Air Pollution on Attributable Risks and Economic Costs of Hospitalization for Mental Disorders
Ziting Wu, Xi Chen, Guoxing Li, Lin Tian, Zhan Wang, Xiuqin Xiong, Chuan Yang, Zijun Zhou, Xiaochuan Pan
forthcoming in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12743
Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission
Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12643
Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy
Dominik Buttler, Eva Sierminska
published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, published 02 March 2020 (https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-020-09668-x)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12423
On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion
Oded Stark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12341
Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation
Petri Böckerman, Andrew Conlin, Rauli Svento
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021, 32, 100568
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12263
Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing
Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Olivia S. Mitchell, Anya Samek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11979
The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy
Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva
revised version appeared as CEPR DP 13339 (v. 2) in January 2020; forthcoming in: Italian Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11921
Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making
Xi Chen
in press: International Journal of Health Policy and Management (available Online from 04 November 2018)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11538
Less Is Not More: Information Presentation Complexity and 401(k) Planning Choices
Eric Cardella, Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Michael Parent
published online as 'Less is not more: 401(k) plan information and retirement planning choices' in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 07 December 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11069
The Truly Vulnerable: Integrating Wealth into the Measurement of Poverty and Social Policy Effectiveness
Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10567
Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Daniel Barth, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10528
Household Portfolio Choice, Reference Dependence, and the Marriage Market
Wenchao Li, Changcheng Song, Shu Xu, Junjian Yi
Forthcoming at Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10408
Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk
Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray, Mark N. Harris, Christopher Spencer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10407
Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
Nicolás Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 177, 548-568
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10363
The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Long-term Consequences of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Savings of European Households
Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni, Luca Stella, Christoph T. Weiss
published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 97-113
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10244
On Measuring Uncertainty: Snakes and Ladders
Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10151
Anchoring in Financial Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field
Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141: 164-176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9405
The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?
G. Andrew Karolyi, David T. Ng, Eswar Prasad
forthcoming in: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9387
Information Characteristics and Errors in Expectations: Experimental Evidence
Constantinos Antoniou, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau, Daniel Read
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9227
Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Petter Lundborg, Kaveh Majlesi
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 87(4), July 2020, Pages 1683–1725.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9178
On the Origins of Risk-Taking
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Petter Lundborg, Kaveh Majlesi
published as 'On the Origins of Risk-Taking in Financial Markets' in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (5), 2229 - 2278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8905
Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Petter Lundborg, Kaveh Majlesi
published in: Review of Finance, 2018, 22 (3), 951-975
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8635
The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Dimitris Christelis, Dimitris Georgarakos, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 102246.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8535
Measurement Error in Subjective Expectations and the Empirical Content of Economic Models
Tilman Drerup, Benjamin Enke, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
published as: "The precision of subjective data and the explanatory power of economic models" in the Journal of Econometrics, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2017.06.017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8306
Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?
Karina Doorley, Eva Sierminska
published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2014, 22, 43-85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7917
Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure
Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan, Christopher Zeppenfeld
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7837
Locus of Control and Savings
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Mathias Sinning
published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2016, 73, 113-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7734
To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective
Eva Sierminska, Karina Doorley
published in Journal of Income Distribution, 2018, 25(1), pp. 1-43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7417
Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Commitment and Mortgage Debt
Philippe Bracke, Christian Hilber, Olmo Silva
heavily revised version published as 'Mortgage debt and entrepreneurship' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103, 52 - 66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7265
Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding
Johannes Binswanger, Martin Salm
revised version published as 'Does everyone use probabilities? The role of cognitive skills' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 73-85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6989
Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth
Margherita Fort, Francesco Manaresi, Serena Trucchi
revised version published in: Economic Policy Volume 31 (88), 743-782 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiw012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6877
An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion
Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill
published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6648
Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Costanza Torricelli
revised version published as 'Who Holds the Purse Strings within the Household? The Determinants of Intra-family Decision Making' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 101, 65-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6567
Do Wealthier Households Save More? The Impact of the Demographic Factor
Ansgar H. Belke, Christian Dreger, Richard Ochmann
published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2015, 12, 163-173
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6469
Testing CAPM with a Large Number of Assets
M. Hashem Pesaran, Takashi Yamagata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6060
Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets
Isaac Ehrlich, Jong Kook Shin, Yong Yin
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2011, 5 (3), 255-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4081
Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates
Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill
published in: D. Drukker (ed.): Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 27A, Missing Data Methods, 2011, 213-249.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3975
Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach
Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Costanza Torricelli
revised version published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011, 24 (11), 2902 - 2915
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3517
Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem?
Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, Alexander K. Koch, Hans-Theo Normann
published in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13 (4), 412-438.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3445
Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions
Nauro F. Campos, Renata Leite Barbosa
revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (1), 28–51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3304
The Asset Portfolios of Native-Born and Foreign-Born Households
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Vincent A. Hildebrand
published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(268), 46-59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2906
Modelling Volatilities and Conditional Correlations in Futures Markets with a Multivariate t Distribution
Bahram Pesaran, M. Hashem Pesaran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1948
The Portfolio Choices of Hispanic Couples
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Vincent A. Hildebrand
published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2006, 87 (5), 1344-1363
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1150
The Wealth of Mexican Americans
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Vincent A. Hildebrand
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41 (4), 841-868
IZA Discussion Paper No. 674
The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Vincent A. Hildebrand
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 51 (1), 17-42
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